we have government, unions, and we have teacher practitioners. one of the very clear things is the importance of collaboration, particularly if a country is looking for change, all parts need to buy in and be part of that in order to make that change. another, i think, is actually it has emphasized that all the things we are doing in new zealand, we are on the right track. we need to be going further and faster because we have an achievement gap, and we want to be able to pick up all of our students so that they have the capability to realize their potential. the other take away is that everybody is learning from each other cherry picking, if you like. why do we need to reinvent the wheel? if singapore has identified a good process for teacher preparation, why not learn from what they are doing? similarly, finland has mastered how they might close the poverty gap. >> what can the united states learned from new zealand? >> the united states, indicative in its name, is really a collection of very, very big countries. i think that we do offer an exc